Author's Note: You guys get this chapter early, and I do hope that you like it. The end is pretty close, though I shall end it on the Red moon, which should be coming pretty darn early. A lot can happen in a few chapters, and it will not be rushed.
Majority rules, and there will be a lemon for Misao/Aoshi. I'll just have to heat things up for them, won't I? Well I hope you enjoy it, and it can be in this chapter. I'm not saying it is though!
THE ACTION CONTINUES! WELL IT'S BEGINNING ANYWAYS!!!
Chapter Eleven: The Beginning of the War
A Vampire's Life
Years had passed, it has begun,
In the Land of the Rising Sun,
My journey that was meant to stop,
To live only to rise to the top.
But, it would not end, this life,
Going still in the midst of strife,
To live only to destroy and kill,
To take blood in need to feed my fill.
I've lived for centuries, one of the oldest,
But, unfortunately, also one of the saddest.
I've seen a lot in my lifetime,
To the brink of not surprising me, for some time.
Maybe, one day, my life would soon cut short,
The words of one that couldn't sort
The happiness in living and the peace in death,
Until then, I'll stay and look for my sheath.
By Tan Kimiko (Thank you so much, and I hope that you enjoy this chapter.)
The six vampires encircled the vehicle and kept constantly changing positions so that they seemed to be spinning around the Jet8000. They had to make sure that every angle of the car was protected, just in case anything happened.
Tae rolled down her window when there was a light tap.
"What is it Sano?" Questioned Tae confused.
"Someone intercepted your calling to the rest of us. You guys keep going forward, and you two girls don't scream," said Sano seriously, as he looked at the ten-year-old Ayame and Suzumi who nodded.
Sano's speed seemed to decrease as he allowed them to go ahead.
"Cho and I will stall them. You four follow them and make sure that no one attacks that vehicle," said Sano as he slowed to a stop.
The others looked back understanding, as Cho stopped beside him.
"Take care of my mate, or else Soujiro," Yelled Cho.
The vampire only smiled before saluting to them and running toward the head of the car as they drove off quicker.
"I guess we don't have to hide any more," said Cho as he bent his head.
"They're coming from the west, east, and south. I estimate about 100 werewolves to our west, 200 zombies to our east, and 225 vampires to the south of us," said Sano as clutched his fists and looked down as well.
As if on transformation, Cho raised his head as he bore as fangs and his eyes glowing with an inferno of completely amber; not a shred of white was left in his orbs. His muscles along with his ki began to pulse as they began to bulge a bit, threatening to rip apart his clothing. The vampire's long claws were so sharp they could cut through metal and diamonds like paper.
His ki had grown darker, engulfing the already dark night. The nuclear cells that were near by began to spark from the over load of the power that had been collected over the pass millennia.
With the adding of Sano's powers, the nuclear cells exploding causing the paper nearby to catch spark and enter buildings and slowly begin to burn them away.
The two grinned at having their power released once again. Holding it back was like trying to suppress a pop can from exploding after being shaken up.
Sano faced southwest and Cho faced southeast.
They stared as the forms of Enishi and Shishio's followers began to rush toward them. The odds were 1 to 0, Sano and Cho being the one as their ki continued to rise to unimaginable heights.
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Kirei stopped herself before she could cry she was tired and the memories of two beings into one were beginning to make her brain throb. Slowly, she sat down on one of the cotsilk coaches.
She slowly rubbed her temples, and suddenly her brain cried Yahiko and Tsubame.
"Something must be wrong with them," said Kaoru, as her eyes averted to their original hue of blue.
She stood up and focused her ki to finding them, though she couldn't reach them as she was cut off from the barrier that admitted the house, and she wasn't strong enough yet to sense distress kis from within such a powerful house.
Something was wrong, she could feel it. Then it hit her, the two were suppose to come back here after their study session, but they never returned to them. Her brain began to produce gruesome deaths that she had gained from her mate's memories.
"I have to find them," said Kaoru to herself, as she raced out of the mansion, and ran as quick as she could to the edge of the barrier and focused her powers to find theirs. She strained her senses to find them, to figure out where they were, but it was no use.
Though instead she picked up another ki signal. A familiar one that rang into her ears, and there seemed to be four of them. She looked about perplexed and realized that the ki that was suppose to be Yahiko and Tsubame's, was actually a counterfeit made from the real source.
As if hypnotized, she slowly began to follow the ki that was pulsing using her godly speed. The noise was ringing and it called for her, it called for her to return. It was like a mother singing a lullaby to her baby, and the baby calling to the lullaby in memory.
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Misao could feel the heat within her body rise as she allowed her ki to drip from her body; she no longer had the will power to keep all of it in. All of that power that she was born with began to pool out of her, locking and dancing with her beloved's in a never ending ceremony. She felt his arms wrap around her as Aoshi lifted her to his body and moved them over to the bed.
How she loved the way his hands burned against her body, how they felt so secure and comforting. It was like forbidden pleasure to have such a being doing such loving things to her.
She felt her stomach flutter as he laid them on the bed, his perfect body only inches of layers of clothes between them. For a moment, she felt grateful that she was her normal wear, it was easy enough to come off, but she getting his clothes off was going to be the hard part. Why did he have to put on so many layers that were buttoned up?
Knocking the senseless thought from her head, she looked back up and gasped as she saw those lustful green-gray eyes tear at her soul. She moved her hands to her chest awkwardly, as if she were already exposed to his golden stare.
"No koibito," said Aoshi, as he grabbed her wrists with his powerful arms and brought them over her head, and they were nose to nose, their eyes locked in their own battle of love and lust.
Aoshi kissed her jaw line and teasingly flicked his tongue so that it couldn't with Misao's flesh; sending shivers down her spine. He couldn't help but grin every time she her eyes sparkled with an intense glee that he was doing such things to her. Her eyes were so innocent, and she was giving herself to him willingly, trusting him with every fiber in her being.
Giving into temptation, Aoshi allowed his lips to seek her own as she kissed back with the same amount of passion. He could have smiled with pride with the power that they were creating from their ministrations. His ki was rising, and he knew it. He knew that once they had begun this, that they couldn't turn back. There was no going back, it was either go forward or stop all together and loose everything. He had gone too far to loose anything, and as long as he was with her, he had nothing to worry about.
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"Six Arches dead ahead" cried Shura when she spotted the rows upon rows of arches and white roses that had been planted there for years.
They had never died from the day that they were planted. Anatra planted the plants in memory of her niece and the vampires that had lost their lives that day. Each one filled with her own ki to forever live as long as she did. They seemed to sing as the flowers felt the familiar ki of their mistress's blood, or at least half of it.
So they really are the twins. Thought Shura with a smirk as she looked at the car, and stopped once the car stopped at the steps to the entrance.
"Let's go," said Katsu as he helped Ayame and Dr. Genzai out of the car, as Tae helped Suzumi.
"Where did the other man go?" Asked Suzumi confused as she held her basket close to herself.
"He and Cho are busy right now, let's get you guys out of the cold and into the warm security of the temple," said Megumi with a smile as she led the way.
Katsu, Shura, Soujiro, and Kittra stayed behind as the five walked up the road and into the temple.
Once the five were safely within the barrier of the protected land, the four nodded to each other before vanishing from sight, they needed to help Sano and Cho. From the type of ki they were emitting, the four were sure that they were up against a lot more than just a few vampires, werewolves, and zombies here and there.
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Kaoru felt her ki growing as she got closer to the ringing, the noise growing louder with each step that she took. Desperate to find out what the items was that were dragging her to them, Kaoru went faster.
She could feel the items sing out to her, calling her to them. It kept her going, kept her feet moving. Her thoughts were filled with finding the items, as if she had lost a loved toy and finally realized where it was.
Ignoring the pulsing kis coming from all around her, she continued. Nothing else was important, the only important thing was to find the objects and hold them close to her. A part of her was trying to remember what it was, but from all the memories she had to look through, she couldn't figure out what it was that was calling her.
Letting her feet be her transportation, her ears being her guide, and her eyes her look out, Kaoru continued. She knew that whatever it was that she wanted, was close by.
Not even the flames that came from a few blocks to her left was of any importance, all she wanted were those objects.
She walked on like a zombie herself, and only had the intention of getting what she wanted what she needed. The call became louder and louder as she felt herself getting stronger and stronger.
As she walked on, she didn't notice the red eyes that narrowed into slits behind her. Eyes that were filled with anger yet there was something else in them as well, something that wasn't seen in years.
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The road came up like a tidal wave and crashed upon the blue furred creatures, and managed to knock many of them out. Another strip of road rose up and crashed down, causing the werewolves to scramble as the vampires went for the elder vampire's neck, but they were thrown back from the force of his ki and the impacted of his mighty fists that healed every time that it was scratched.
Sano ran toward the crowd of monsters head on, ready for anything that they could possibly throw at him. He would tear them apart, and make them all pay for betraying them. For wanting to take over the world, when they had already gone out into the opening. They were going against what he had fought for; they refused to go at peace with the humans, so now they were against Battousai and his men. What fools!
Cho unattached his long slinky-like sword, and lashed it out like a whip, tearing apart the zombies and tightened his grip enough so that it began a long sword and plunged it right through a row of 10 vampires' hearts. He reeled back in his weapon, and whipped it back out snapping it back into a long sword again.
He lashed it around with such quick accusation that every time he hit his target would either lose their body parts or vanish in a cloud of ashes.
Vampires began to cry out in rage and pounce on them from the sky, imprisoning the two creatures in a gigantic bubble of humans.
With an outburst of fury, the vampires were pushed off of the two, and thrown into the zombies and werewolves, scrambling them all around them. Though just as quickly as the two had pushed them off, more came to take their place. It seemed like a there was no limits to Enishi's followers.
The two needed help, and they needed now.
Just as another 50 vampires jumped into the sky to land down upon them, they fell down with their head being split into so that their brains were cut, causing them to die quickly and vanish into ashes that lifted into the sky, filling it until it turned gray.
Every being seemed to stop, as they looked at the blooded katana and the smiling vampire holding it; his eyes glowing a molten amber as Shura, Katsu, and Kittra stood behind Soujiro with grins on their faces, eyes burning with an inferno of lust for blood.
"We thought you could use help," said Kittra with a grin, she had a long nuclear gun in her hand that she tilted toward her neck as she winked at her mate.
"So then join the party," said Sano with a grin, as they all turned to face different groups of monsters.
"It's time that you all learn not to mess with your elders," said Cho loudly, as the others began to raise their ki, slowly changing into the beings that they truly were underneath their mollified features.
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Kaoru walked on, the singing of the items were calling her and she was answering it. She was going to find what they were, and why they wanted her so badly to come back to them. From the moment that she heard the noise, she knew that the sound was too familiar, a noise in which she wanted to describe from her past from Kenshin's memories, but she could not. The noise was just... something that she couldn't remember seeing or hearing from the ritual's outcome.
She walked on, careless about what was going on about her. The once spirited eyes seemed to be wavering, and replaced by a glazed coat over her sapphire orbs. It was like the call was hypnotic, and made a long path for her to walk, blocking out what was happening around her.
Soon, she was in down town Metallic Kyoto. The streets were empty, all the lights off, and no one around for miles. Her eyes scanned the roads, and not a single vehicle was there or in the sky for that matter. The fact didn't occur to be strange, for the one thing on her mind was to find the source of the mysterious sound and once and for all fill her curiosity.
Looking up, she saw a building. The tallest one there, and was completely dark. There was an eerie blue and red glow on the top floor. Smiling, the vampire began to run up the skyscraper easily. Her newfound strength and abilities were growing, and her ki was pulsing, destroying nuclear lights as she went up.
Her footsteps hardly touching the metal walls as she ran up, her stealth movements unseen to the naked eye. The darkness seemed to engulf her, envelop her into its shadows.
Racing to the top floor, she noticed that the window was open. Ignoring the fact that it was odd, she jumped in. Her hands on the ground as her eyes adjusted to they light. They widened in awe at what she saw, at the items that were pulsing with ki and glowing.
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A/N: That's all for now! It's longer than some of chapters that I've done for my other fics at least. Aoshi/Misao lemon next time! So be warned ahead of time. Please do send in poems!
